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44. [BIRTHDAY CARDS]. [A series of nine shaped birthday cards for ages one to nine]. “Mia” cards., circa 1950.
£88
A collection of 9 shaped greeting cards depicting animals, children, and pixies, folded as issued, with verse and drawings printed in red; all fine and unused.
45. BLANCHAN, Neltje. Birds that hunt and are hunted. new York: Doubleday, Page & Company. 1905.
£100
4to. original green cloth; pp. xii + 359, 48 coloured photographic plates; very good.
Later edition, first published in 1898. A book written very much from a conservationist’s point of view, this is a look at the ‘life histories’ of American birds of prey, game birds and wild fowl.
46. BOWEN, Emanuel. A new & Accurate map of the Whole Russian Empire, as contained both in Europe and Asia. original engraving of the Russian Empire by Emanuel Bowen, c.1740. 355 x 475 mm.
£375
47. BOYS, C.V. Soap Bubbles and the forces which mould them. Garden City, nY: Doubleday Anchor Books. 1959.
£18 8vo. original paper wrappers; pp.; 156, text illustrations; fine.
First edition thus, Science Study Series no. 83. Boys’s classic of popular science was first published in 1890 and is still in print today. This is a very attractive edition in unusually fine condition.
48. BRADLEY, Richard. A Philosophical Account of the Works of nature. Endeavouring to set forth the several gradations remarkable in the mineral, vegetable, and animal parts of the creation. Printed for W. Mears. 1721.
£2,200
4to. nineteenth century half calf with blue cloth boards; pp [xx] + 194 + [1, ads], 28 handcoloured plates; title page browned with loss to top right corner, browning and creasing to advertisement page, sunning to binding, plates clean, occasional marginal notes, very good. Provenance: binder’s ticket to top left of front pastedown “Brerherton ligavit 1850”. The style, colour and date of the binding and the simple format and wording of the ticket all suggest that the binder was in fact Bretherton, who was on this occasion the victim of a typographical error, on behalf of Sir Thomas Phillips (1792- 1872). Bretherton worked extensively for the great victorian bibliophile, producing this kind of binding for the books in the baronet’s enormous library at middle hall. Phillipps spent an estimated £250,000 on books and manuscripts, leaving his family with considerable debts. Posthumous sales of his collection continued until 2006. This book also has the ownership inscription of Max Walters, (1920-2005), the respected botanist and academic. he was Director of the University Botanic Garden and a Fellow of King’s college in cambridge, and wrote a number of important books including two well-received volumes in the new naturalist series.
First edition. Richard Bradley (1678 - 1732) was a highly esteemed botanist, being elected a Fellow the Royal Society in 1720 and becoming the first Professor of Botany at cambridge University in 1724. “Bradley was a prolific science writer ... his style was clear and readable and his reputation immense. Bradley’s main scientific contributions were his studies on the movement of sap and on the sexual reproduction of plants” (D.S.B. ii, p. 390). This book concentrates on the practical applications of minerals, flora and fauna, and takes an approach that startlingly foreshadows modern ecological science: “Bradley succeeded in conceptualizing biological productivity in terms—monetary investment vs. profit—that could be applied to organisms as different in form and habitat as trees, grapevines, and crayfish... his writings represent a significant beginning for productivity ecology.” (Abstract of Egerton, “Richard Bradley’s Understanding of Biological Productivity: A Study of Eighteenth-century Ecological ideas”, Journal of the History of Biology, volume 2, number 2, 1969). moreover, his work predicts that of Darwin in his arrangement of minerals, plants and animals in an ascending scale based upon an analysis of
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